My Life in Publishing

June 18th, 2009 | Posted by: Henry Baum

  • I’ve been thinking about how I’ve gotten to this point and why I’ve become such a zealot for self-publishing.  I have to say that self-publishing was an absolutely last resort for me.  I was trying and trying to make it in the world of traditional publishing.  And I’ve had some luck.  I mean some people [...]

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  • Essential Writers interview

    June 17th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi

  • I can be overly “blahblahblah, blah blah BLAH blah…and thennnn…”, but I’d like to include the omitted part here, because it’s amazing how easily others can taint something that would otherwise be “I’m-getting-so-wasted-tonight!” exciting:

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  • The Ups and Downs of the Author’s Life

    June 16th, 2009 | Posted by: Andrew Kent

  • Image by kimberlyfaye via Flickr

    Earlier this week, I was at a major meeting of publishing professionals in Washington, DC. I was giving a talk to 100+ people about 30 minutes before a signing event for my book, “Spam & Eggs: A Johnny Denovo Mystery.”
    I had a satchel of books weighing me down to supplement the [...]

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  • Better to not know.

    June 16th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi

  • “Are we supposed to read?” I said.

    “Oh, you can do whatever you want. I know Shawna plans to read.”

    Oh. Uhhh…

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  • A Recent Review of Threshold

    June 16th, 2009 | Posted by: Bonnie Kozek

  • Here’s a recent review of Threshold written by Ron Fortier at Pulp Fiction Review:
    “What are the odds I’d end up reviewing two books back to back whose protagonist is named Honey? Which is exactly what happened, but be warned, these ladies are about as different as night and day can be. Read on, MacDuff.
    This book [...]

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  • Backword Begins

    June 14th, 2009 | Posted by: Henry Baum

  • The inaugural post of Backword.  It occurs to me that some people are going to take issue with this whole enterprise.  In the world of self-publishing, there are people who are so embittered by the gatekeeper’s hold on traditional publishing that they’re cynical about the concept of gatekeeping entirely.  This has been apparent in the [...]

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  • Homefront by Kristen Tsetsi

    January 21st, 2009 | Posted by: Shop

  • A cab driving former English professor, an unpredictable alcoholic Vietnam veteran, an anti-war soldier, and a morbid mother in-law come together in this realistic, sensual, and darkly humorous semi-autobiographical tale of waiting through a war deployment.
    “I had never had a better understanding of the agony of military separation until I read Kristen Tsetsi’s haunting [...]

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  • The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks

    January 20th, 2009 | Posted by: Shop

  • Edward, a young Minnesotan, is blessed with an abundance of “experience”–first when his mother dies and next when his father, an encyclopedia salesman, shoehorns Edward into a private boys school where he’s tortured and groomed.
    In nine chapters, the reader experiences Edward’s life from ages 14 to 45. This is the first novel from Christopher Meeks, [...]

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  • The American Book of the Dead by Henry Baum

    January 18th, 2009 | Posted by: Shop

  • Eugene Myers is working on a novel about the end of the world. Meanwhile, he discovers his daughter doing porn online and his marriage is coming to an end. When he begins dreaming about people who turn out to be real, he begins to wonder if his novel is real as well. Which isn’t good [...]

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  • Do the Math by Philip Persinger

    January 18th, 2009 | Posted by: Shop

  • Math professor plus romance novelist equals a marriage of heart and mind. He is writing a theory of inevitability. She reunites lovers who have been separated for decades. Sadly for her, she does that once too often.
    “Engages readers with a tone of sarcastic amusement that invites them to laugh at the easily sketched foibles of [...]

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